10/03/2011

Holly; look at me … My 10th Chapter…

I'll make it a good one

The First

Chapter 10

Somehow he was able to avoid the worst of the attack, but was still thrown backward into a wall, leaving a Danny-shaped dent in the steel. Thankfully the cloak protected his back from any major injuries, but the Wail had hit him fully in the stomach, nearly collapsing his rib cage.

He sat there in a stunned stupor for several seconds trying to ignore the pain and looked up when the wolf stopped his earsplitting attack and turned to face him. Danny winched upon seeing that his muzzle had actually been spilt down the middle in order to give the Ghostly Wail a stage for its release.

Danny could actually see the swirling Green energy stored in the back of its throat and immediately realized why the Werewolf was having such a hard time breathing. His mouth had been designed onlyfor attacking.

After directing another glare toward the man's screen for causing this pour creature to endure such a burden, he pulled himself out of the wall, wincing as his healing body complained of the movement.

"Alright boy," Danny breathed, holding his chest. "I want to help you, but you need to let me." It didn't seem like his words were getting through to the Werewolf's hunger-ridden brain, as the creature let out a low growl and stalked toward him in a slow predator like fashion.

Again Danny barely had time to react, as the wolf suddenly sprang toward him and sink its teeth into the air where he'd just been. The Ghost Boy flew off to another side of room dodging another Ghostly Howl and came to rest in the air, as high as the ceiling would allow him.

Figuring this would be the best time to put his crazyplan into action. He summoned the courage to close his eyes and cover his ears, leaving himself wide open for attack. As quickly as he could he located what he needed and opened his eyes again, to find the wolf was gone.

He didn't even have time to panic as the creature had suddenly jumped up behind him to slash across his back with its scarp caws. Shredding the precious marital of his cloak and cutting deeply into his skin.

He cried out in pain, already felling the blood flowing down his back as he was propelled into the ground. Taking several deep shuddering breaths, Danny struggled to his knees, the ground around him already pooling with green ectoplasmic blood, while his skin rushed to repair itself.

While his bodies' quick healing process meant that he wasn't in any real danger of bleeding to death, its' natural cycle to cope with the stress of blood loss was making his eyes start to blur. But he forced himself to say awake, knowing that if he lost consciousness in this place, he mightnotwake up again.

Somehow finding the strength to push down the pain, he looked around the room again, trying to relocate the rift in the Dimensional Fabric of Space that he needed. But as he pulled himself back to his feet, a tremor alerted him to a presence right behind him.

Danny was able to dodge enough that the Wolf missed his neck, but not enough to escape entirely unscathed as it's' teeth quickly sank into his left shoulder. He couldn't help it this time and he screamed in agony, his vision actually turning black from the pain for several seconds. But in those several seconds his brain seemed to switch into survival mode, he quickly took hold of the Wolf's head, then with all the inhuman strength he could muster, he used his hands to pry open the animals' jaws freeing himself, before throwing the beast into a wall about 10 feet away.

He immediately collapsed to his knees, clutching at the wound on his shoulder, as blood trickled through his fingers and adrenaline continued to pulse through his body. "I really hope he isn't like normalWerewolves" Danny whispered to himself, trying to occupy his mind with something otherthen the pain.

After taking a few deep breaths, he refocused his attention on the wolf, as he got back to his feet, shook his head and started toward him again. Danny tried to get up, but his legs wouldn't support his weight. In under a second the Wolf was once again only inches from tearing his head off, to use as his own personal chewtoy, when suddenly a bright green ball flew over to hover in front of the Wolf's face.

"Say Cheese!" T0rch declared brightly, before physically flashing and blinding the beast, causing it to rear back, clutching at its eyes.

"T0rch," Danny said, never being so happy to see the little fire ball.

"Hey boss, got that information you wanted." T0rch stated as if nothing serious was happening.

"Oh," Danny said, having honestly forgotten about that, "Great." He declared and looked back as the Werewolf rubbed its eyes and looked back at them with anger. "Think maybe you can keep him busy for a minute." Danny asked and T0rch brightened yet again.

"You bet," The Fire ball declared, before flying over to hover in front of the Wolf's face again, sticking out his tongue and zigzagging through the air, taunting the creature.

"Who'd have thought Tucker could program him to be annoying too." Danny stated finally getting back to his feet and ran to a random spot in the room, before digging into the Dimensional line he had seen there, opening in up just enough, so that it would mend itself back together in a few seconds

"T0rch over here," Danny yelled as loudly as he could, while still trying to catch his breath.

"Come on Fido, this way, you want the ball, yes you do." T0rch cooed at the beast, as if it was a lost kitten. Before suddenly zipping off to fly into the hole, forcing Danny to dodge out of the behemoths way as it leaped in after him.

Realizing the portal was already closing, Danny struggled back to his feet and ran to the doorway, where he fired off a powerful beam of Ice toward the creature floating aimlessly on the other side, freezing him solid, just as the portal closed in his face.

Danny collapsed back to the ground as T0rch reappeared from his screen on his wrist, looking rather proud of himself (which he had every right to be.)

"Frostbite should be able to find you now," Danny whispered to the Werewolf, even though he knew he could no longer hear him. "He'll help."

He had to admit the green Zone on the other side had never looked so inviting and he was almost tempted to go through as well. But he hadn't come all this way and been through all that grief just to leaveemptyhanded. And he certainlywasn't going to leave that little boy in this horrible place.

After a few minutes of trying to catch his breath and holding as stillas possible so his skin could knitback together the right way, his brain registered laughing. He looked back up to see that the Shadow man was back on his screen.

"I have to admit that was clever." The man stated.

"Somehow I expectedyou to be a littlemore upset." Danny declared painfully.

"On the contrary, we had plans to disposeof that one, after it had giving the Weaponall it's knowledge." The man admitted, with a smile. "But thankyou for sparing us the mess."

"Freak," Danny accused and closed his eyes in pain.

"Now don't get too sentimental, the testsare not over yet." The man declared.

"Wanna bet," Danny whispered, forcing himself to get back on his feet.

"We've seen your fighting and learned that you have a powerful weakness for not wanting to hurt the innocent. But now I want to see you're skills when faced with multipletargets."

Danny looked back at the screen in disbelief, only to find the shadow man once again gone, as well as the screenhe had been on. In its' place were thousands of arrow-like spikes,which lined every square inch of the room.

"Boss," T0rch yelled suddenly serious. "They're lined with Resin and someothersubstanceI can't trace. You're not going to be able to phase through them."

"Oh crap," Danny moaned, before a single spike whizzed past his ear, signaling the others to start shooting off at random intervals. The Half-Ghost flew around the room like a cockroach in the middle of a tap-dancing convention, trying desperately not to get hit. But with the shear number of spikes flying through the air and the fact that he was still injured from his battle with the Werewolf, he was having no such luck.

Several minutes later, the arrows had finallystopped firing, as Danny was now collapsed back against the wall, unable to move and bleeding from hundreds of new injures across his body. He took in one shuttering breath after another trying to fight off the pain.

Normally, if he'd reverted back to his Human form, none of his injures would have crossed over, but if he was killedin that form, he wouldn't be coming back and he had a sneaky suspicion that that was justwant this Psycho wanted.

"Does it hurt," The Shadow man asked, with mock pity in his voice.

"What kind of a stupidquestionis that? For course it hurts." Danny declared, through gritted teeth.

"I've been curious to know if this NewResin would work on you." The man continued as if his pray hadn't said anything,

"What," Danny asked, really not liking the sound of that.

"It's a new form of Resin that we've come across." The man answered. "We call it D-Resin; we acquired it quite recently from the Dimensional Space between realms. Though it seems to have a different affect depending on which species it's used on; however we weren't sure if it would work on you, my colleges and I have had quite an enjoyable argument on the subject. You see it has a unique quality, instead of being dispelled by heat it is attracted to it." The shadow man continued, smiling. "So even ifyou could have phasedthrough those spikes, the D-Resin wouldhave attacked your HumanHalf instead."

Danny's eyes widening in recognition. "Skulker's new weapon," He whispered.

"Oh please, thatoafwouldn't have brains to create such a work of art." The man said offended. "The onlything he is guilty of is stealing what was rightfully ours. We're just lucky you didn't catch on to his Forewarning."

"He was trying to – warn me."Danny realized immediately and would have smacked himself if he could move. "I guess he never wasone for subtle conversation."

"But enough small talk, I'm curious to see if it worked," The man stated and Danny screamed when the remainder of the green rope around his neck suddenly pulsed an electric charge through his body, achargethat he unfortunately found very familiar.

"No," Danny cried as he felt the charge hit his center and short-circuit his powers, forcing him into his Human Form.

As was expected his Human body was in far worst condition then his Ghost Form had been. But Danny could no longer register this, even the constant pain had now faded into nothing, somewhere in the back of his mind he could hear screaming, but couldn't comprehend that it was his. He could feel his body shutting itself down, but couldn't muster the desire to stop it, he felt more then sawthe darkness closing in around him and though he somehow knew what it meant, he welcomed it.

Is he dead … I haven't decided …. *Evil grin*

(And for those who didn't quit get it, the Rope acted something like Vlad's Plasmius Maximus: Which short-circuits his powers and reverts him to Human Form for a few hours.)

And also, if there's any thing else that you didn't quit understand about this Chapter or others please fell free to ask me about it in your reviews and I would be happy to clarify.

R&R